Search results for "embodiment"
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Reflecting on Female Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and (Dis)Empowerment
2018
This project aims to unwrap some of the complexities related to female beauty and the body. It reflects on the second wave radical feminist view that beautifying the female body serves to attract male approval via the male gaze, both of which are deeply entrenched in patriarchal power. This perspective positions cosmetic surgery as a disempowering act for women. In riposte, we turn to third wave liberal feminist ideas to engage with the narratives of ten participants who tell of their personal experiences of, and motivations for, undergoing a cosmetic intervention. We undertake an in-depth exploration of these lifeworld experiences and the interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in …
La modelización usando corporeización en la enseñanza de las ciencias
2017
En este trabajo proponemos la corporeización como herramienta didáctica para enseñar modelos y conceptos en diferentes conceptos básicos de la física y la química que aparecen a lo largo de cursos generales y específicos de ciencia. Presentamos una propuesta de diez modelizaciones con corporeización de fenómenos a escala microscópica y macroscópica y mostramos los resultados de un análisis cualitativo de un proceso de corporeización según el esquema de trabajo general. Los resultados muestran la sencillez con la que se discuten conceptos aparentemente complejos y cómo se alcanza la comprensión de la idea aceptada científicamente a partir de la propia modelización de los alumnos. Estos resul…
Relationships Between Audio and Movement Features, and Perceived Emotions in Musical Performance
2023
A core aspect of musical performance is communicating emotional and expressive intentions to the audience. Recognition of the musician's intentions is constructed from a combination of visual and auditory performance cues, as well as compositional features. The current study attempted to quantify these contributions by measuring relationships between ratings of perceived emotion, and motion and auditory performance features. A pianist and violinist with advanced degrees in music performance individually performed four short western tonal pieces. The musicians were tasked with performing the pieces while invoking different expressive intentions: sad, happy, angry, and as a control, deadpan. …
Musical identities in action:Embodied, situated, and dynamic
2022
This article provides a critical overview of musical identities as a research topic. A broad distinction between identities in music (IIM) and music in identities (MII) highlights how musical engagement is central to identity construction. These concepts are integrated with recent advances in psychological theory derived from enactive cognition (4E cognition) to propose a new framework for understanding musical identities, Musical Identities in Action (MIIA). This framework foregrounds musical identities as dynamic (constantly evolving, dialogical, and actively performed), embodied (shaped by how music is physically expressed and experienced), and situated (emergent from interaction with s…
A greasy-skinned worker: gender, class and work in the 20th-century life story of a female labourer
2013
The Value of the Surface : Reappreciating Embodiment, Labor, and Necessity in Arendt's Political Thought
2021
Through an unorthodox reading of Hannah Arendt, this article argues that her political thought contains unacknowledged resources for conceptualizing embodiment in politics, and in relation to the economy, physical needs, and appearance. In contrast to the way she is typically read, this essay develops an affirmative account of embodiment in Arendt's work. Arendt not only recognizes the role of the appearing body in action but also underscores the importance of labor and necessity for a human sense of reality. Throughout her oeuvre, she presents a historical analysis of the rise of a functionalist, processual understanding of life under capitalist modernity. She also develops an alternative,…
Oltre le parole: le relazioni intersoggettive nei nidi d’infanzia e la formazione delle educatrici
2017
In questo articolo mi soffermo in particolare, sulle interazioni e sui legami affettivi ed emotivi tra adulti e bambini, ma anche tra bambini e bambini, all'interno dei nidi d'infanzia, focalizzandomi sulla intercorporeità. Farò riferimento in particolare alle prospettive dell’infant research, dell’intersoggettività e delle neuroscienze secondo un “approccio in seconda persona”. Concluderò con una riflessione sulla formazione degli educatori per l’infanzia alla luce di quanto sostenuto, sottolineando la necessità di percorsi specifici e adeguati alla delicatezza ed alla complessità del ruolo svolto nella crescita dei bambini.
Rewilding Language Education: Emergent Assemblages and Entangled Actions
2021
Integrating concepts and techniques from ethnomethodology and sociomaterialism, this article investigates the observable material processes involving human action and place‐based contexts of language use enabled by locative media. The focal pedagogical intervention utilized mobile augmented reality (AR) activities, the development of which was inspired by research on learning ‘in the wild.’ Applying the principle of reverse engineering, we introduce a pedagogical approach termed ‘rewilding’ for its emphasis on designing supportive conditions for goal‐directed interaction outside of classrooms. Three instances of AR materials use are presented from an out‐of‐class activity associated with un…
Challenges and added value of measuring embodied variables in psychotherapy
2022
Research on embodied aspects of clinical encounters is growing, but discussion on the premises of including embodied variables in empirical research is scarce. Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that embodied aspects of psychotherapy interaction are vital in developing a therapeutic alliance, and these should be considered to better understand the change process in psychotherapy. However, the field is still debating which methods should be used and which features of the embodied aspects are relevant in the clinical context. The field lacks methodological consistency as well as a theoretical model. In the Relational Mind research project, we have studied the embodied aspects of interaction…
Contro le sociologie disincarnate e naturalizzanti. Riflessioni postmoderne su corpi, generi e sessualità
2012
L’analisi sociologica classica e le sue sue varianti più rappresentate (e potenti) all’interno dei diversi contesti accademici hanno sottostimato le dimensioni corporee e sessuali degli attori sociali. Il saggio evidenzia i limiti delle teorizzazioni sociologiche "disincarnate" e "de-sessualizzate", i rischi derivanti dall'uso di categorie desuete che reificano di fatto la realtà ed esprime la necessità di sensibilità epistemologiche e di ricerca, anche alla luce della più recente queer theory, di posizionamento del ricercatore e di una riflessività temperata e consapevole.